NME Awards – Your Predictions Please

Best line your stomach and pull on your drinking pants – it’s the NME Awards tonight! The whole thing kicks off at London’s O2 Academy Brixton from 7pm. Bookmark our liveblog and follow the event as it happens. You’ll then be able to watch it all on TV on Channel 4, Saturday March 3.

Presented by Jack Whitehall, the ceremony will feature live performances from The Maccabees, Kasabian and The Vaccines, while The Horrors and Florence And The Machine are set to perform a very special collaboration on the night.

Noel Gallagher will also perform live, as well as picking up the Godlike Genius Award, while Pulp – recipients of this year’s Teenage Cancer Trust Outstanding Contribution To Music Award – will make their live comeback at the ceremony.
But, with 10 million votes having been cast, who do you think will win? Who deserves to? Let’s look at some key categories, starting with:

Best British Band (supported by Sonos)
Arctic Monkeys
Bombay Bicycle Club
The Horrors
Kasabian
Muse(Last year’s winner: Muse)

According to MusicMetric the act in this category getting the biggest social media buzz ahead of the Awards is Muse, followed closely by Arctic Monkeys. Here’s their visualisation:

You’ll find the full list of nominees here. Whatever happens, and whoever wins, it promises to be a spectacular night – keep an eye on Twitter and the liveblog to find out who wins, the second it’s announced.